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Author Duquette, Jonathan, author.

Title Defending God in sixteenth-century India : the Śaiva oeuvre of Appaya Dīkṣita / Jonathan Duquette
Edition First edition
Published Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2021
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Description 1 online resource (vi, 280 pages)
Series Oxford oriental monographs
Oxford Oriental monographs.
Contents Machine generated contents note: 1. Srikantha and the Brahmamimdmsdbhdsya -- 1.1. Srlkantha's Date, Lineage, and Influences -- 1.2. References to SVikantha in Sanskrit Sources Prior to Appaya -- 1.3. Srikantha's Theology and the Virasaiva Tradition -- 1.3.1. SVikantha and Nilakantha -- 2. Early Saiva Works -- 2.1. Sivatattvaviveka -- 2.2. Sivakarndmrta -- 2.3. Brahmatarkastava -- 2.4. Bhdratasarasamgrahastotra -- 2.5. SVikantha in Appaya's Early Saiva Works -- 3. Reading Srikantha's Commentary -- 3.1. Introducing Srlkantha's Vedanta -- 3.2. Srikantha's Teachings and Pure Non-dualism -- 3.2.1. Srikantha's Theory of Transformation -- 3.2.2. Argument in the Sivddvaitanirnaya -- 3.2.3. Coordination and Coherence: Daharavidya in Srikantha's Commentary -- 3.2.4. Argument Continued: Appaya on BS 1.3.16 in the Sivarkamanidipika -- 3.2.5. Inclusivism and Hermeneutics: Advaita in Sivadvaita -- 3.2.6. Non-duality and Siva's Grace -- 3.3. Appaya on Saiva Scriptures -- 4. Engaging with Srivaisnavas -- 4.1. On Ramanuja's Reading of the Brahmasutras -- 4.2. Subordination, Tolerance, and Orthodoxy -- 4.2.1. Ratnatrayapariksd: Appaya's Triadic Theology -- 4.2.2. Anandalahariksa Treatise on Cicchakti -- 4.3. Appaya on Sudarsanasuri's Defence of Aikasdstrya -- 4.4. Refutation of Pancaratra -- 4.5. Sudarsanasuri: Appaya's Nemesis? -- 5. Reception of Appaya's Saiva Works -- 5.1. Vaisnava Response -- 5.1.1. Dvaita Vedanta: Vijayindra (c.1514-1595) -- 5.1.2. Suddhadvaita Vedanta: Purusottama (c. 1657/1668-1725) -- 5.1.3. Srivaisnava Response -- 5.2. Two Advaitins in Banaras -- 5.3. Saiva Response -- 5.3.1. Saktivi & stadvaita Vedanta of Virasaivas
Summary This text takes an in-depth study of the Śaiva oeuvre of the celebrated polymath Appaya Dīkṣita (1520-1593)
Notes This edition also issued in print: 2021
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Audience Specialized
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 01, 2021)
Subject Appayya Dīkṣita.
Siva (Hindu deity)
SUBJECT Appayya Dīkṣita. fast (OCoLC)fst00038645
Siva (Hindu deity) fast (OCoLC)fst01119826
Subject Śaivism -- History
Hinduism -- History -- 16th century
Hinduism.
Śaivism.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780192643582
0192643584
9780191913259
0191913251
9780192643575
0192643576